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254 - Sleep Issues and COVID-19
Season 3 Episode 254
COVID-19 is tied to sleep issues like insomnia but is this a result of stress and anxiety or is there a biological issue caused by the virus? Dr. Rac…
5 years, 7 months ago
253 - Schools Week Finale: Is It Safe to Reopen US Schools During the COVID-19 Pandemic?
Season 3 Episode 253
While schools may not be inherently safe during the COVID-19 pandemic, they can be made safer. Dr. Caitlin Rivers of the Center for Health Security t…
5 years, 7 months ago
252 - A Principal Gets Ready to Reopen During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Season 3 Episode 252
Matthew Hornbeck, principal of Hampstead Hill Academy—a K-8 public school in Baltimore City—talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about the challenges of vi…
5 years, 7 months ago
251 - Dr. José Ramón Fernández-Peña and How the COVID-19 Pandemic is Impacting Pre-Med and Undergraduate Students
Season 3 Episode 251
COVID-19 has increased awareness of public health, health inequities, and shortcomings of the US health system, but it may also negatively impact col…
5 years, 7 months ago
250 - An Update on the Impacts and Opportunities of COVID-19 on Schools
Season 3 Episode 250
Although the CDC has found little evidence of COVID spreading in schools with proper precautions in place, 17% of districts in the US are fully open …
5 years, 7 months ago
249 - COVID-19 and Chicago’s Public Schools
Season 3 Episode 249
Although private schools and daycares have been open across Chicago since June, public schools are only now preparing to reopen for in-person learnin…
5 years, 7 months ago
248 - Dating in a Pandemic
Season 3 Episode 248
Dating is already so much about trust and safety—COVID-19 adds new complications. Dr. Keri Althoff and Dr. Laura Murray return to the podcast to talk…
5 years, 7 months ago
247 - An Update on COVID-19 in Brazil
Season 3 Episode 247
After public health measures helped stem a massive first wave of infections, fatigue set in, and Brazil is now facing the worst moment of the pandemi…
5 years, 7 months ago
246 - Do Pandemics Really End? What We Know From the 1918 Flu and a Brief History of Vaccine Resistance
Season 3 Episode 246
Even after the 1918 pandemic supposedly “ended” a significant number of people continued to die from “flu-like illnesses” for years. So do pandemics …
5 years, 7 months ago
245 - COVID-19 Research Update: Reinfection in a Health Care Worker, Why Men Might Experience More Serious Disease, and a Look at an Inhaled Antiviral Treatment
Season 3 Episode 245
In this episode, Dr. Josh Sharfstein talks with Hopkins researchers who break down three COVID-19 research papers: Dr. Sheree Schwartz talks about a …
5 years, 7 months ago